Politics

JJP MLA and senior leader Ram Kumar Gautam also accused the Chautalas of not allowing anyone from their community to grow politically taller than them.

Earlier in the day, Kamal Nath led the Congress party's 'Save the Constitution' march demanding peace and justice.

On Tuesday, Hemant Soren met governor Draupadi Murmu and staked claim to form the government. The Governor has invited Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader to form the government.

At the trailer launch of her upcoming film, the actor had slammed those protesting against the new citizenship law.

The legislator, from tribal reserve East Tripura constituency, said he received NLFTs letter five days ago and was threatened of dire consequences for voting in favour of the citizenship legislation.

Exit polls have predicted that the pre-poll alliance of Congress, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and the Rashtriya Janata Dal is likely to emerge as the single largest coalition and may go on to form majority in the assembly.

The governor wrote to JU Vice-Chancellor Suranjan Das and asked him to go ahead with the programme and ignore the EC resolution, failing which there would be serious consequences.

Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma also said that the arrested persons have to pay for the damage as per Supreme Court orders. So far, 705 persons have been arrested in connection with the violence.

Rahul Gandhi at a rally last week in Delhi had said that he was ‘no Savarkar’ to apologise to the government for his political stand. Those picking up the cudgels for Savarkar have chosen to target Congress leaders, including Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma...

Asked about Raj Thackeray's comment that coming together of Sena, Congress and NCP for forming government was betrayal of voters, Pawar said the government was only 15 days old, and it would not be fair to make such criticism.

Saying it was too late for a discussion on the issue, Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan said the government should make its intentions clear.

In a televised message, Sonia Gandhi said people have the right to raise their voice against wrong decisions and policies of the government, and register their concerns.

When Mumbai Congress president Eknath Gaikwad was asked why the Shiv Sena was not part of the front, called 'Hum Bharat Ke Log', he said the protest was organised by NGOs and not his party.

Arvind Kejriwal said if an all-India NRC exercise is held, it would be the poor who would stand to lose the most, as he pointed out was the case with another government scheme: demonetisation.

Adityanath said law and order was the prime concern of his government and no laxity would be tolerated in maintenance of order.

Senior members said it was perhaps for the first time that the House had been adjourned for the day because of a ruling party MLA.